Re: [patch] make NM survice a HAL restart

[Timo Hoenig <thoenig suse de>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:51 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> One thing to keep in mind; when HAL starts back up again, what if the
> device list is different?  We should eventually have some code to grab
> the device list from the restarted HAL, diff it against our internal
> list, and add/remove devices that have changed.  ie, HAL dies and in the
> interim you remove your PCCard.  Right now we're screwed.

We're already refreshing our device list once HAL is back
(NetworkManager.c, nm_hal_init).

> But that shouldn't stop this patch from getting committed.  Robert, if
> Timo doesn't have a Gnome CVS account, can you sponsor him for one?
> Then he can commit the KDE applet and we can all go to town on it.  I'd
> suggest putting it under /kde or somesuch, which is why I moved the
> applet to /gnome a while ago.

Sounds good to me.

> Dan

Thanks,

   Timo